Gotta be from the 1960's. Three VW and they are six volt. VW went to 12 Volts in 1967.
Posted on 08/15/2014 9:54:14 AM PDT by Drew68
LOL - your school gets the prize. You win. No one can top that one.
“Of course, back then a broken wrist wasn’t a five-figure emergency room bill.”
When I saw the bills, I was stunned. Made me understand concerns about escalating medical costs.
We had gone about 25 years without medical insurance. Hence we thought twice, before visiting a physician of any kind.
When we needed medical help, we went to a “walk-in” clinic. Paid cash. And got pretty good care, too.
I’m 66 yrs. of age, now. Seen my share of doctors over mostly broken bones.
Last year I had a serious injury including a broken shoulder, subsequent surgery. Fortunately now covered by insurance.
One of the last injuries before I got insurance, was a hairline arm fracture. Waited about 10 days, before going to the walk-in for xrays. Sure enough, I was right-self-diagnosed myself as having fractured the bone, in a fall.
The physician said no splint was required, but advised me to go the Physical Therapy, same owner company as walk-in clinic.
I didn’t go to therapy, but learned it would be fast and easy to run up bills by the thousands on a non-insured basis.
HAHA! We would throw those giant green walnuts at each other.
Strange... I don’t see the children either
-BB gun fights.
-Playing Hide and Seek in the woods...at night.
-Remember when soda cans were made out of real tin. We would duct tape 6 together, pour a little lighter fluid in the end and touch it off with match. BOOM!!! and it was reuseable.
-Walking to and from Christmas Midnight Mass, by myself, in Chicago, in the snow, at age 11 and 12.
-Walking home from school in the rain and making it a contest as to who could get the wettest. We’d stand by the biggest puddles on the road and wait for cars to splash us.
It isn’t medical costs that are escalating so much as it is that you have to pay for YOUR treatment as well as 3-5 others’ treatment that walked on THEIR bills.
LOL - your school gets the prize. You win. No one can top that one.
(Ummmm, now that you might see my tagline I need to explain - I 'borrowed' it a few days ago)
I hated those things. First, because I couldn’t use them well and second, they hurt like crap! lol
I’ve always been convinced that Big Wheels pic is photoshopped.
I have enough experience jumping the things to know that it’s impossible to exert enough leverage (ie leaning as far back as possible and pulling back hard on the handles) during a jump to keep the thing from following a ballistic arc following departure from the ramp. At the point seen in that picture the thing should already be nosing over ...
Born in 1961, but my life was tame compared to my Dad’s...
Proposed raising our kids according to 1960’s or 70’s standards and my wife was not pleased.
Oh, well I feel sorry for them.
More to the point, where’s her cigarette?
The back of Boys Life was such a crock. I always wondered if any rich kid ever did that hover car kit they always advertised. Just sea monkeys for me.
I remember when I moved from FL to IL around 77, at my new school the kids played “Butts Up” outside the school before it started.
Butts Up was like handball, jai alai and baseball. You threw a ball as hard as you could against a brick wall. As it rebounded, any kid would try to grab it cleanly and throw it again. If you muffed the grab, you had to run to the wall and touch it before another guy could pick up the rubber ball and blast you in the back with it. If the thrower missed you, then he had to run to the wall before he gets blasted.
Three drops/muffs, you had to go to the wall, butt facing the line of kids, and every kid got a free pitch as hard as they could to nail you.
The rumor was that the High School kids were using golf balls.
We didn't have a tree, we had to go across the street to the Dairy Queen to smoke while off campus for lunch.
I understand now there's a "closed campus" you can't leave at lunch to smoke.
As hot as Mom is in that pic, you just know that (it being the 70’s) Dad is off banging his even hotter secretary ...
Gotta be from the 1960's. Three VW and they are six volt. VW went to 12 Volts in 1967.
Hey guys, lets hide in this giant leaf pile right on the street and when the next car goes by we’ll jump out and throw leaves all over the windshield!! Great idea. After that, let’s play Axe game, our version of the Shining where the biggest kid chases us around with a real axe from the shed.
Today, that would get a parent thrown in jail.
I think this was the same model:
I couldn't have been older than 8 at the time.
Oh my, I remember that! Sometimes we would play walk the plank version where you had to walk in front of the wall back and forth while they tried to peg you as hard as possible.
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